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Artist: Chee Chee & Peppy
Artist: Ramona´s Got a Peppy Voice
Take two actors/musicians with a lot of energy and a wish to create something original and fun. Let´s also say these two people are the best of friends and bring out each others crazy sides. What do you get? Well, Lily Red and Jim Blonde from Stockholm, Sweden, and we´re here to make the world a peppier place! Just you wait! [+] Read More
Artist: Balance
American pop/rock group led by singer Peppy Castro, former leader of Blues Magoos, and featuring keyboard player Doug Katsaros and guitarist Bob Kulick. Their album Balance and singles "Breaking Away" and "Falling in Love" were in the charts in 1981 and 1982. After their debut album, they added bassist Dennis Feldman and drummer Chuck Burgi, but... [+] Read More
Artist: Dave Koz
The latest contender for the instrumental pop saxophone throne, Dave Koz came out of nowhere after his self-titled 1990 release made it onto the Billboard Contemporary Jazz charts and stayed there several weeks. He has more fire and intensity in his work than Kenny G., and often sounds like a reworked David Sanborn. Koz also played on Arsenio... [+] Read More
Artist: Superchick
Superchick first appeared in 2001 with Karaoke Superstars (Inpop), a peppy mix of popternative grooves and CCM positivity. Led by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Max Hsu (ex-Church of Rhythm), the band also included vocalist Tricia Brock, her guitarist/vocalist sister Melissa Brock, fellow guitarist Justin Sharboro, drummer Brian, and... [+] Read More
Artist: Nikki Cleary
Nikki Cleary first found success with the 2001 novelty pop hit "I.M. Me," which was issued under her given name, Brittney Cleary. But when buzz surrounding that single generated label interest in the young singer, her eventual signing with Jive facilitated a name change. After all, the powerhouse pop label already had one Britney in its stable.... [+] Read More
Artist: Natalise
Bay Area dance-pop songstress Natalise began voice training and classical piano as a little girl, moving into dance and even a bit of acting before staring a modeling career as a teenager. At 21, she debuted on the compilation Import Jams with the peppy club/dance track, "Love Goes On." The song generated a buzz at San Francisco radio, and soon... [+] Read More
Artist: The Bloodhound Gang
From King of Prussia, PA, the Bloodhound Gang hit the alternative charts in 1996 with a blend of obnoxious sexual innuendo and unpolitically correct stoner wit reminiscent of the early Beastie Boys -- mixing punk rock with hip-hop much as the Beasties had done. Frontman Jimmy Pop Ali and Lupus produced the band's first release, the 1994... [+] Read More
Artist: Tom & Jerry
Tom & Jerry were actually the duo of Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel, who worked under that name when they began recording in the late '50s. It's a period that they downplay when discussing their careers, preferring to pick up the story after they had begun performing folk and folk-rock in the mid-'60s. Long before that, though, the pair were... [+] Read More
Artist: The Good Rats
While countless rockers started their careers in the New York suburb of Long Island before going on to worldwide success (Billy Joel, Twisted Sister, Steve Vai, Brian Setzer, Blue Öyster Cult, etc.), there have been countless acts that appeared poised for a breakthrough, but for whatever reason, fell short. Many longtime followers of Long... [+] Read More
Artist: Blues Magoos
A Bronx-based quintet, denizens of the Greenwich Village club scene, and originally known by the tres psychedelic moniker the Bloos Magoos, the Blues Magoos made their mark in 1967 with a rousing, full-throttle, sub-literate, psychedelic garage rock single, "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet." It wasn't a spacy, pretentious song, nor did it contain... [+] Read More
Artist: The Cairo's
Washington, D.C.'s the Cairos recorded one record for Raynoma Liles, Gordy Singleton, and Eddie Singleton's Shrine label. Miss Ray, Barry Gordy's second wife, started Shrine with her new hubby after both bounced from Motown. Shrine (located in D.C.) issued the peppy "Stop Overlooking Me" b/w "Don't Fight It" in 1966; it flopped just like the... [+] Read More
Artist: Dogs Die in Hot Cars
Even though their bright, peppy pop recalls Dexy's Midnight Runners, Big Country, XTC, Talking Heads, and other new wave luminaries, Fife, Scotland's Dogs Die in Hot Cars grew up on a musical diet of Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers. The band -- who allegedly stumbled upon their odd name while inhaling helium balloons -- got their start while... [+] Read More
Artist: Peter Wyngarde
In Great Britain, Peter Wyngarde was one of the most well-known television actors of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly for his role as detective Jason King in Department S. American viewers may be more familiar with him as one of the many actors who played the role of No. 2 in The Prisoner. Wyngarde's phenomenal popularity generated interest... [+] Read More
Artist: Senseless Things
The Senseless Things were a very young and peppy pop-punk band from England who made a brief impression on the British scene in the early '90s. Sadly for them, they were a few years ahead of their time as bands like Green Day and Blink 182 became worldwide stars using the same template as the Senseless Things.
Formed in 1987 in the town of... [+] Read More
Artist: Harry Reser
When one thinks of pre-bop banjoists, it is of purely rhythmic players whose chordal solos differ little from what they play during ensembles. Harry Reser however was quite a bit different, an outstanding virtuoso who was arguably the finest banjoist of the 1920's. Less an improviser than a brilliant technician who could play novelty ragtime... [+] Read More
Artist: The Applejacks
A minor British Invasion group that had three hits in the U.K. (but none in the U.S.), the Applejacks are principally known -- if anyone remembers them at all -- for covering a John Lennon-Paul McCartney composition that the Beatles never released in the '60s, "Like Dreamers Do." Their jaunty, lightweight pop/rock could have easily been mistaken... [+] Read More
Artist: George Orendorff
Going to high school with fellows who turned out to be great jazz musicians---not only Eddie South and Wallace Bishop but try on Lionel Hampton for classmate vibes---may have been an overwhelming experience for George Orendorff, a talented trumpeter who subsequently made swinging music a part-time, if consistent, part of his life. He also served... [+] Read More
Artist: Puseletso Seema
The little landlocked nation of Lesotho is so poor that at one point in the '80s, there was only one television set in the entire country. It was located in a bar, and people would stand in line, waiting their turn to watch the set for ten minutes each. There has always been plenty of room for music, however, with traditions including a native... [+] Read More
Artist: Hal Rammel
Hal Rammel is an instrument builder, improviser, teacher, photographer, author, record-label owner, and a radio producer based in Wisconsin. All of his creative output relates to the notion of improvisation and self-design as ways to reach a higher level of surrealist imagination. He performs rarely and has released few records, but he played... [+] Read More
Artist: Harry Nilsson
Although he synthesized disparate elements of both rock and pop traditions, singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson was at heart a maverick whose allegiance belonged to neither. His initial series of albums in the late '60s made him a personal favorite of the Beatles, who found a natural affinity with his knack for catchy melodies, witty lyrics, and... [+] Read More
Artist: Gerry & the Pacemakers
As unfathomable as it seems from the distance of over 30 years, for a few months, Gerry & the Pacemakers were the Beatles' nearest competitors in Britain. Managed (like the Beatles) by Brian Epstein, Gerry Marsden and his band burst out of the gate with three consecutive number one U.K. hits in 1963, "How Do You Do It," "I Like It," and "You'll... [+] Read More
Artist: Brother's Keeper
Few hardcore band have been as universally regarded in the scene for their sincere, positive, and upbeat personalities as the men of Erie, PA's Brother's Keeper. The band's reputation as nice guys is only surpassed by their renown for show-stopping, audience-inclusive performances; vocalist Mike Ski's unmistakable shriek; bass player Eric "EMS"... [+] Read More
Artist: Adam Faith
The late '50s in England saw a legion of young teen idols, groomed for music stardom by managers eager to see their clients land a chart hit or two on their way to careers as all-around entertainers, or even television or movie actors. A few of them, like Cliff Richard and Billy Fury, were genuinely exciting rock & rollers when they started out,... [+] Read More
Artist: Patsy Montana
Patsy Montana was the first woman in country music to have a million-selling single -- 1935's "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" -- and was a mainstay on the National Barn Dance on Chicago radio station WLS for many years. She might also have been country music's first female session musician. In the '30s and '40s she was the sweetheart of... [+] Read More
